Well, I will need to go in and grade and do more SysBot preparation; working this afternoon got interrupted by scary weather (apparently there was a tornado about 10 miles south of me, and possibly one east). So I spent part of the afternoon sitting on the bathroom floor recovering my long-dormant Mastodon account (just in case Twitter winds up in the sh***er, thanks to it now being a vanity purchase of someone with far more money than sense) and checking the weather radio
I also need to start a gift project (something small: a hat or fingerless mitts) for a gift exchange I take part in the first part of December. That may be tonight though I've only got as far as pulling a couple pattern books off the shelf.
It's still raining like mad out there; I had had plans to go down to the farm store south of town that sells grassfed beef (and now is having baked goods from a local baker on Fridays - the place is only open Tuesdays and Fridays) but I'm not going out in this, maybe next Tuesday for the beef....
Yeah, I’ve said “proving where it came from to an absolute certainty will not bring back my cousin or my family friend who died of COVID, it will not restore the lost senior-HS-years of too many kids who had to finish their educations online and didn’t get a graduation, it won’t restore the friendships that were fractured over differences in level of comfort with going out/masking/vaccines.” It’s broken a lot of us and the origin doesn’t matter, even if you could prove one guy did it, fining or incarcerating or executing him wouldn’t solve a damned thing.
I suspect part of the "lab leak" hypothesis is people want someone to blame. It's unsatisfying to hear that this catastrophe was bad luck, or because humans still insist on eating meat, or that we are encroaching too far into nature and getting exposed to zoonotic diseases that are new to us. (I suspect we always have been exposed to zoonotic diseases - influenza incubates in swine and waterfowl - but we've not seen a respiratory pandemic like this in over 100 years).
It's much more satisfying to point a finger at That One Guy or That Group Of Guys and say they did evil, than it is to have to consider "the way humans live now, we may be increasing our risk for this"
I also think there's a weird desire in a lot of people to have "secret knowledge" that they figure makes them smarter than everyone else - even if that "secret knowledge" doesn't fit with actual reality. This is how a lot of heresies got started through the years.
Also, I'm kind of amazed at the level of conspiracy-theory acceptance you see in general in people, even people who are otherwise educated or savvy. Maybe it's my scientific training where I talk about Ockham's Razor regularly, but I look at the disease, the fact that it seems to have originated near a wet market, the fact that bats have absolutely freaky immune systems and carry some weird stuff, and I go "probably originated in bats, and we just got really unlucky this time" instead of spinning up some simple conspiracy ("Chinese bioweapon") or a more complex one (I've heard ones even implicating Fauci). I mean, what we're seeing with the recent attack in San Francisco, where people seem willing to amplify utterly batguano falsehoods because those either confirm their priors, or paint the "right" people as villains, is related to this.
On darker days (mentally) for me, I wonder if we're entering some new medieval period where a lot of what we've learned will just be ignored then forgotten, and we'll see disease and famine become much more common. I'm too old now to live to see a neo-Renaissance so I am kind of bummed about that possibility. (But on better days, I tell myself THAT is conspiracy thinking. At least until I hear some person opposed to childhood vaccines start talking)
Snow before Halloween was not totally uncommon when I was a kid growing up in northeast Ohio; there were a number of years when we had to put parkas on over our costumes, which kind of ruins the effect.
Here, snow is rare any time, and if we do get it, it's more common in February than any earlier.
Not sure what I'm doing this weekend. I have stuff I COULD do (work stuff) but I'm kind of burnt out (last week was one of those weeks where I'd either be sitting down to work on my own stuff, or going "hey maybe I could leave a few minutes early today" and then NOPE something urgent came up that HAD to be done).
I do have to make something for a potluck tomorrow, I have not totally decided on what.
Right now? Grading.
Tomorrow? If the "tropical storm level" winds that are supposed to arrive, don't, I'm gonna go south of the river for better grocery shopping, and maybe hit the JoAnn's if I can't find my GOOD size J crochet hook tonight. If they do hit, I guess I go to the local Mart of Wal and hope they actually restocked this week.
Our weather right now is weird. I was wearing heavy tights and a thermal shirt under my dress on Monday, today it's almost too hot with a cotton dress and hose. No idea what next week may bring
yeah, there are even a lot of college majors that are less "employable" than 10 or 15 years ago.
Conversely: we're having a hard time finding someone as a field-trained botanist, because for years universities said "there's no money or jobs in organismal biology, become a cell biologist instead" so now I - nearing the end of my career- am having to pick up a course or two that the outgoing retiring guy used to teach, when we could not find a replacement on Search 1.
Search 2 is not looking good either :(
There's GOTTA be a happy medium somewhere between "Follow your bliss" (meaning: some people wind up with training that's hard to find a job in, or a job that pays a living wage) and "Learn to code" (do something you hate and eventually become part of an oversupply of some fields where others you can't FIND a person with the training)
LOL. I hate that I get that allusion. (It happened when I was a few months old, not quite sure if my parents had moved there yet).
I used to run around in CVN(RA)P a lot when I was a kid, when it was still a Recreation Area. Also hung out in Summit Metroparks a lot; Deep Lock Quarry was my favorite.
FOR ONCE I AM DOING SOMETHING MILDLY EXCITING.
We got a "surprise" mid-fall break day today (wasn't on the calendar at first, I didn't know about it until 2 weeks ago) and I speculated on Twitter what I should do, then a friend of mine in Louisiana turned out to be free today, so I am driving 3 hours to meet up "midway" (less than midway for her, more for me, but the "midway" that has the most interesting things to do) and at least going to a yarn shop and out for lunch.
I have not seen her in over 2 years. Because pandemic, you know. So in a few minutes I have to get dressed, should hit the road no later than 7:30 in order to get there by 11.
I would not drive 3 hours just for shopping. But to get to see a friend? Sure.
well, I also lost my dad (to whom I was close) about six months before the pandemic started, and had a minor health scare (probably tied to stress over grief) in January 2020, so I wasn't doing so hot going into the pandemic myself.
well, frick. I wonder if Amtrak will refund fares for Thanksgiving if my trip is a no-go due to a strike. I don't love the idea of another solo Thanksgiving but there's no easy way to make alternate plans now. (Too far to drive, I loathe flying and it's very hard for me to get to an airport where I live)
That means crossing a river and the state line to go to a town more prosperous (and with laxer liquor-selling laws, which has an effect on what groceries will come to an area) than mine to buy some brands/food items I can't find locally.
It's kind of sad when I contemplate how in the "before times" I thought nothing of this - there were times when I did this weekly - but now it's a BIG journey and it feels like I'm going somewhere really far away. Granted, that's not entirely the pandemic's fault; there's been horrific construction on the interstate I take to get there since early 2020 and it is probably going to continue forever at this rate.
I might go to the big antiques mall first - one I've not been in since 2019 - to see what they have. I don't NEED anything but it's still fun to look at other people's old stuff. And who knows, there might be an interesting vintage cookbook or maybe someone's disposing of their grandma's knitting needles....
I figure here, because of the taxes (one of the reasons for the rush to legalize in an otherwise deeply paternalistic state was "oh the tax money!") that a lot of enthusiasts are still using their local weed guy. And given the number of houses I still see with tinfoil up over some/all of the windows, I assume there are still plenty friendly local weed guys.
not sure legalizing for recreational will do much other than that we'll have 50 dispensaries instead of 30 in town.
I have a glittery clear Otterbox case on my (old, earlier gen) iPhone.
I have dropped the phone numerous times, banged it incarefully into things, had it slide off a stack of books. My phone is still intact, because the case has a "bumper" on it that protects the screen (I also have a screen protector).
It's ridiculous that they make something to fragile and then exhort us not to put a case on it to protect it. Or maybe it isn't, if they're figuring a sizable subset of people who drop and break their phones are rich enough to go out and buy an immediate replacement. (I am not, hence I am using a phone old enough it still has a headphone jack)
I absolutely do not trust myself not to drop my phone in such a way as to smash it. I get tired, I am naturally clumsy, I am distractable. I love having a case and a screen protector on my phone and Apple can just suck it if they don't like that.
there are a few houses in my town that have had realtor signs up for weeks and weeks; I assume there's something undesirable at the house or they priced it higher than what the market would bear. For a while at least, my town was bimodal in house prices: relatively inexpensive (less than $120K) places, but that were small, required work, and were usually in a part of town where most people would rather not live, or places well up over $200K in nicer areas and more move-in condition.
I know; I looked when I had renovations happening on my place this summer and was suffering serious regret about sinking my literal life savings into them and I wondered "could I have just bought a new place and moved for cheaper" and no, no I could not have.
Oklahoma was going to have recreational on the ballot this fall, but Question 820 (too bad that the number 420 had already been used) didn't get on the ballot in time, because apparently the proponents of it didn't get the required signatures in time. ("Awwwww, maaaaaaaaaaan....")
I expect recreational to be just as shoddily managed and rushed-because-of-tax-revenue as the medicinal* was.
(*medicinal in name only; I've been told some dispensaries have doctors on call that are very handsy-outsy with the cards)
I would have far less issues with it if it hadn't been done in such a laissez-faire way where it's far harder to get a bottle of sherry too cook with in this state than it is to get any number of MJ products
Gonna go get my flu vaccine; have already had students out with the flu (they got tested for covid, negative, then their doctor tested for flu - didn't realize that was possible - and they got a positive for that)
What I do saturday will depend on how my body reacts to the vaccine. If it's a typical flu-shot reaction I'll probably go grocery shopping and clean the house up. If it's a stronger reaction I may just sleep.
yeah, it was a LOT faster than I thought it would have been. One of the things that made me wonder if I'd be able to mentally survive the pandemic (if you had asked me in, say, June 2020) was that people were saying "five years minimum until we get a vaccine" and I was thinking "holy Hell, most of the rest of my career, until I retire, will be me teaching into a dumb camera on my computer and never seeing another person" and worrying some dark night I'd just snap and....not be there the next day
it was amazing. Even if I'm still sad that we didn't get a fairytale happily-ever-after of the vaccine giving sterilizing immunity, and even if enough people in my region have refused it that the virus still circulates pretty freely, still: I'm back in the classroom, which probably saved my life.
Okay so apparently I am not alllowed to comment that I had a strong immune reaction to the b**ster #2, despite my being pro-vaccine and STILL planning on getting the bivalent b**ster in a couple months..
*grump*
Okay, trying again: that's why I'm waiting until Christmas break; I will be at my mom's to get the booster. I had a REALLY strong immune reaction to plain-old booster #2 and was down for 2 days and didn't feel "right" for about a week. I want someone there if my immune reaction to the bivalent is even stronger.
Could have been the unusually hot summer, though. Could have been that I inhabit a fifty-ish year old woman's body and it was doing what fifty-ish year old women's bodies do, IDK.
I go get the flu shot Friday. I'm hoping I don't get much more than a sore arm.
yeah, that's why I'm risking waiting until December (had plain-old booster #2 in July and it knocked me down for 2 days, and I didn't feel "right" for a week*) for the bivalent: I am going to get it while at my mom's for Christmas, so if something goes really bad with my immune response there's someone there who could drive me to an ER. Or if things go less bad, someone to make me chicken soup and tell me they're sorry I feel bad.
(*It's also possible that getting a booster shot during a run of 110 F temperatures while one's body is simultaneously deciding to speed-run menopause caused some of that)
Supposed to be 98 F out tomorrow. We might get a "cool down" next week to 85 (that is not, in this displaced Northerner's book, a "cool down") but still no rain - we are in a terrible drought and I"m looking nervously at my trees hoping they survive it.
I wish it felt like fall. I seem to tolerate the heat less now than I did in July, when it was worse. I go over to retrieve a couple tubs from the storage unit (I am slowly bringing my craft supplies back home) and I am just sweaty and wiped out for half an hour after doing it.
I also want it to feel like a good time to make soup and other foods like that; am getting tired of cold food "so I don't heat up the house"
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On “Weekend Plans Post: I want my hour back hour back hour back.”
Well, I will need to go in and grade and do more SysBot preparation; working this afternoon got interrupted by scary weather (apparently there was a tornado about 10 miles south of me, and possibly one east). So I spent part of the afternoon sitting on the bathroom floor recovering my long-dormant Mastodon account (just in case Twitter winds up in the sh***er, thanks to it now being a vanity purchase of someone with far more money than sense) and checking the weather radio
I also need to start a gift project (something small: a hat or fingerless mitts) for a gift exchange I take part in the first part of December. That may be tonight though I've only got as far as pulling a couple pattern books off the shelf.
It's still raining like mad out there; I had had plans to go down to the farm store south of town that sells grassfed beef (and now is having baked goods from a local baker on Fridays - the place is only open Tuesdays and Fridays) but I'm not going out in this, maybe next Tuesday for the beef....
On “Throughput: The COVID Lab Leak Theory Resurfaces”
Yeah, I’ve said “proving where it came from to an absolute certainty will not bring back my cousin or my family friend who died of COVID, it will not restore the lost senior-HS-years of too many kids who had to finish their educations online and didn’t get a graduation, it won’t restore the friendships that were fractured over differences in level of comfort with going out/masking/vaccines.” It’s broken a lot of us and the origin doesn’t matter, even if you could prove one guy did it, fining or incarcerating or executing him wouldn’t solve a damned thing.
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I suspect part of the "lab leak" hypothesis is people want someone to blame. It's unsatisfying to hear that this catastrophe was bad luck, or because humans still insist on eating meat, or that we are encroaching too far into nature and getting exposed to zoonotic diseases that are new to us. (I suspect we always have been exposed to zoonotic diseases - influenza incubates in swine and waterfowl - but we've not seen a respiratory pandemic like this in over 100 years).
It's much more satisfying to point a finger at That One Guy or That Group Of Guys and say they did evil, than it is to have to consider "the way humans live now, we may be increasing our risk for this"
I also think there's a weird desire in a lot of people to have "secret knowledge" that they figure makes them smarter than everyone else - even if that "secret knowledge" doesn't fit with actual reality. This is how a lot of heresies got started through the years.
Also, I'm kind of amazed at the level of conspiracy-theory acceptance you see in general in people, even people who are otherwise educated or savvy. Maybe it's my scientific training where I talk about Ockham's Razor regularly, but I look at the disease, the fact that it seems to have originated near a wet market, the fact that bats have absolutely freaky immune systems and carry some weird stuff, and I go "probably originated in bats, and we just got really unlucky this time" instead of spinning up some simple conspiracy ("Chinese bioweapon") or a more complex one (I've heard ones even implicating Fauci). I mean, what we're seeing with the recent attack in San Francisco, where people seem willing to amplify utterly batguano falsehoods because those either confirm their priors, or paint the "right" people as villains, is related to this.
On darker days (mentally) for me, I wonder if we're entering some new medieval period where a lot of what we've learned will just be ignored then forgotten, and we'll see disease and famine become much more common. I'm too old now to live to see a neo-Renaissance so I am kind of bummed about that possibility. (But on better days, I tell myself THAT is conspiracy thinking. At least until I hear some person opposed to childhood vaccines start talking)
On “Weekend Plans Post: Winter is Something Something”
Snow before Halloween was not totally uncommon when I was a kid growing up in northeast Ohio; there were a number of years when we had to put parkas on over our costumes, which kind of ruins the effect.
Here, snow is rare any time, and if we do get it, it's more common in February than any earlier.
Not sure what I'm doing this weekend. I have stuff I COULD do (work stuff) but I'm kind of burnt out (last week was one of those weeks where I'd either be sitting down to work on my own stuff, or going "hey maybe I could leave a few minutes early today" and then NOPE something urgent came up that HAD to be done).
I do have to make something for a potluck tomorrow, I have not totally decided on what.
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Calm Before the Storm”
Right now? Grading.
Tomorrow? If the "tropical storm level" winds that are supposed to arrive, don't, I'm gonna go south of the river for better grocery shopping, and maybe hit the JoAnn's if I can't find my GOOD size J crochet hook tonight. If they do hit, I guess I go to the local Mart of Wal and hope they actually restocked this week.
Our weather right now is weird. I was wearing heavy tights and a thermal shirt under my dress on Monday, today it's almost too hot with a cotton dress and hose. No idea what next week may bring
On “From the AP: ACT test scores drop to lowest in 30 years in pandemic slide”
yeah, there are even a lot of college majors that are less "employable" than 10 or 15 years ago.
Conversely: we're having a hard time finding someone as a field-trained botanist, because for years universities said "there's no money or jobs in organismal biology, become a cell biologist instead" so now I - nearing the end of my career- am having to pick up a course or two that the outgoing retiring guy used to teach, when we could not find a replacement on Search 1.
Search 2 is not looking good either :(
There's GOTTA be a happy medium somewhere between "Follow your bliss" (meaning: some people wind up with training that's hard to find a job in, or a job that pays a living wage) and "Learn to code" (do something you hate and eventually become part of an oversupply of some fields where others you can't FIND a person with the training)
On “Weekend Plans Post: A Quick Return to 2020”
LOL. I hate that I get that allusion. (It happened when I was a few months old, not quite sure if my parents had moved there yet).
I used to run around in CVN(RA)P a lot when I was a kid, when it was still a Recreation Area. Also hung out in Summit Metroparks a lot; Deep Lock Quarry was my favorite.
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FOR ONCE I AM DOING SOMETHING MILDLY EXCITING.
We got a "surprise" mid-fall break day today (wasn't on the calendar at first, I didn't know about it until 2 weeks ago) and I speculated on Twitter what I should do, then a friend of mine in Louisiana turned out to be free today, so I am driving 3 hours to meet up "midway" (less than midway for her, more for me, but the "midway" that has the most interesting things to do) and at least going to a yarn shop and out for lunch.
I have not seen her in over 2 years. Because pandemic, you know. So in a few minutes I have to get dressed, should hit the road no later than 7:30 in order to get there by 11.
I would not drive 3 hours just for shopping. But to get to see a friend? Sure.
On “From the AP: ACT test scores drop to lowest in 30 years in pandemic slide”
oh hey Henrietta is back! I got computers changed over and maybe I was using the 'wrong" e-mail to comment on here
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well, I also lost my dad (to whom I was close) about six months before the pandemic started, and had a minor health scare (probably tied to stress over grief) in January 2020, so I wasn't doing so hot going into the pandemic myself.
On “From NBC News: Rail union rejects labor deal brokered by Biden administration, raising possibility of strike”
well, frick. I wonder if Amtrak will refund fares for Thanksgiving if my trip is a no-go due to a strike. I don't love the idea of another solo Thanksgiving but there's no easy way to make alternate plans now. (Too far to drive, I loathe flying and it's very hard for me to get to an airport where I live)
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Joys of Time Off”
"Big" grocery shopping.
That means crossing a river and the state line to go to a town more prosperous (and with laxer liquor-selling laws, which has an effect on what groceries will come to an area) than mine to buy some brands/food items I can't find locally.
It's kind of sad when I contemplate how in the "before times" I thought nothing of this - there were times when I did this weekly - but now it's a BIG journey and it feels like I'm going somewhere really far away. Granted, that's not entirely the pandemic's fault; there's been horrific construction on the interstate I take to get there since early 2020 and it is probably going to continue forever at this rate.
I might go to the big antiques mall first - one I've not been in since 2019 - to see what they have. I don't NEED anything but it's still fun to look at other people's old stuff. And who knows, there might be an interesting vintage cookbook or maybe someone's disposing of their grandma's knitting needles....
On “Presidential Monday Trivia”
They were (or are, in Obama's case) left-handed?
I assume "only these presidents" means "among those who have been president" and not "only these presidents AMONG HUMAN BEINGS"
On “Extra! Extra! The Ten Second News Links We’ve Overlooked!”
I figure here, because of the taxes (one of the reasons for the rush to legalize in an otherwise deeply paternalistic state was "oh the tax money!") that a lot of enthusiasts are still using their local weed guy. And given the number of houses I still see with tinfoil up over some/all of the windows, I assume there are still plenty friendly local weed guys.
not sure legalizing for recreational will do much other than that we'll have 50 dispensaries instead of 30 in town.
On “Embrace The Case”
I have a glittery clear Otterbox case on my (old, earlier gen) iPhone.
I have dropped the phone numerous times, banged it incarefully into things, had it slide off a stack of books. My phone is still intact, because the case has a "bumper" on it that protects the screen (I also have a screen protector).
It's ridiculous that they make something to fragile and then exhort us not to put a case on it to protect it. Or maybe it isn't, if they're figuring a sizable subset of people who drop and break their phones are rich enough to go out and buy an immediate replacement. (I am not, hence I am using a phone old enough it still has a headphone jack)
I absolutely do not trust myself not to drop my phone in such a way as to smash it. I get tired, I am naturally clumsy, I am distractable. I love having a case and a screen protector on my phone and Apple can just suck it if they don't like that.
On “Extra! Extra! The Ten Second News Links We’ve Overlooked!”
there are a few houses in my town that have had realtor signs up for weeks and weeks; I assume there's something undesirable at the house or they priced it higher than what the market would bear. For a while at least, my town was bimodal in house prices: relatively inexpensive (less than $120K) places, but that were small, required work, and were usually in a part of town where most people would rather not live, or places well up over $200K in nicer areas and more move-in condition.
I know; I looked when I had renovations happening on my place this summer and was suffering serious regret about sinking my literal life savings into them and I wondered "could I have just bought a new place and moved for cheaper" and no, no I could not have.
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Oklahoma was going to have recreational on the ballot this fall, but Question 820 (too bad that the number 420 had already been used) didn't get on the ballot in time, because apparently the proponents of it didn't get the required signatures in time. ("Awwwww, maaaaaaaaaaan....")
I expect recreational to be just as shoddily managed and rushed-because-of-tax-revenue as the medicinal* was.
(*medicinal in name only; I've been told some dispensaries have doctors on call that are very handsy-outsy with the cards)
I would have far less issues with it if it hadn't been done in such a laissez-faire way where it's far harder to get a bottle of sherry too cook with in this state than it is to get any number of MJ products
On “Weekend Plans Post: Use Your Time Off”
Gonna go get my flu vaccine; have already had students out with the flu (they got tested for covid, negative, then their doctor tested for flu - didn't realize that was possible - and they got a positive for that)
What I do saturday will depend on how my body reacts to the vaccine. If it's a typical flu-shot reaction I'll probably go grocery shopping and clean the house up. If it's a stronger reaction I may just sleep.
On “Thursday Throughput: COVID Over Edition”
oh. And here I thought you either wanted to keep OT ghost-free, or force us all to really say "BOOURNS"
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yeah, it was a LOT faster than I thought it would have been. One of the things that made me wonder if I'd be able to mentally survive the pandemic (if you had asked me in, say, June 2020) was that people were saying "five years minimum until we get a vaccine" and I was thinking "holy Hell, most of the rest of my career, until I retire, will be me teaching into a dumb camera on my computer and never seeing another person" and worrying some dark night I'd just snap and....not be there the next day
it was amazing. Even if I'm still sad that we didn't get a fairytale happily-ever-after of the vaccine giving sterilizing immunity, and even if enough people in my region have refused it that the virus still circulates pretty freely, still: I'm back in the classroom, which probably saved my life.
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Okay so apparently I am not alllowed to comment that I had a strong immune reaction to the b**ster #2, despite my being pro-vaccine and STILL planning on getting the bivalent b**ster in a couple months..
*grump*
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Okay, trying again: that's why I'm waiting until Christmas break; I will be at my mom's to get the booster. I had a REALLY strong immune reaction to plain-old booster #2 and was down for 2 days and didn't feel "right" for about a week. I want someone there if my immune reaction to the bivalent is even stronger.
Could have been the unusually hot summer, though. Could have been that I inhabit a fifty-ish year old woman's body and it was doing what fifty-ish year old women's bodies do, IDK.
I go get the flu shot Friday. I'm hoping I don't get much more than a sore arm.
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testing? Apparently my comment got sent to moderation or else just wiped from the face of the earth
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yeah, that's why I'm risking waiting until December (had plain-old booster #2 in July and it knocked me down for 2 days, and I didn't feel "right" for a week*) for the bivalent: I am going to get it while at my mom's for Christmas, so if something goes really bad with my immune response there's someone there who could drive me to an ER. Or if things go less bad, someone to make me chicken soup and tell me they're sorry I feel bad.
(*It's also possible that getting a booster shot during a run of 110 F temperatures while one's body is simultaneously deciding to speed-run menopause caused some of that)
On “Weekend Plans Post: Finally Autumn”
still high summer here :(
Supposed to be 98 F out tomorrow. We might get a "cool down" next week to 85 (that is not, in this displaced Northerner's book, a "cool down") but still no rain - we are in a terrible drought and I"m looking nervously at my trees hoping they survive it.
I wish it felt like fall. I seem to tolerate the heat less now than I did in July, when it was worse. I go over to retrieve a couple tubs from the storage unit (I am slowly bringing my craft supplies back home) and I am just sweaty and wiped out for half an hour after doing it.
I also want it to feel like a good time to make soup and other foods like that; am getting tired of cold food "so I don't heat up the house"
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